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2 Sheets-Sheet l W. G. HAYNES Revolver.

Patented Mar. 1, 1859.

2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

v W. G. HAYNES.

Revolver.

Patented Mar. 1, 1859.

WILLIAM G. HAYNES, OF MELROSE, TEXAS.

ZMPRGVEEVEENT EN REVGLVQNG FIRE-ARMS.

Specification forming oo-rt of Letters Patent No. 22,057, dated March 1, 1859.

To ail whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, NILLiA'ZvI C. HAYNES, of Melrosc, in the county oi" Nucogdoches, and State of Texas, have invented an Improvement in Revolving FireArms, the construe tion and operation of which i have described in the following specification and illustrated in the accompanying drawings with sufiicient clearncss to enable competent and skillful workmen in the arts to which it pertains'or is most nearly allied to make and use my invention.

The objectend purpose of my son! inven tion is to provide means for shooting sev rat charges of bnckshot without reioading, whiie at the some time these shot sheii be guided with ali the precision 0t single bullet tired from a barrel of proper bore to tit it. To accomplish this desirable purpose it is neces sary that all the shot in each chnrqe shall be tired at once.

My said invention consists in the combinetion of a. barrel which is bored with several apertures to guide the shohench separately, with a chambered revolving breech which is pierced with hoies or npertnies 'in groups whicharc bored in such positions in the'cyiinderor breech that each of these groups shall, when the cylinder is rotated into the proper position, meet or match the. grow: in the barrel, when each separate group in the cylinder, its corresponding with these in the bnrrci, is so connected to the others in the same group that ali its barrels inny be discharged by the explosion oi asingie cap, or other priming, hereinafter more fuiiy i forth.

in the ucccmpsnyingdrnwin Figure 1 is as side elevation of my hey-revs. i. e-srm. Fig. 2 is a sectional plnn, showing the mode of connecting the chambers sons to discharge several bullets at the same time. Fig. 3 is a sectional elevation. Fig. 4 is an end view.

A is the stock, and B is the hmnmer, which is attached to any common gun-100k. D is the barrel.

This gun is intended more espec ally for shooting buckshot, and is bored to. fit the size] of shot required, and. rifled;

The number of barrels or, more properiy, of holes in the barrel B may be varied to corre spend with the wants crflthe user. Seven is the number here represented, These holes in the barrel D connect with the chambers in the cylinder E, which chambers are arranged in groups so as to meet the holes in the horror. 1n the cylinder all these chambers in each group are connected by the chamber F innuediately back of these charge-chambers, with which charge-chambers they communicate by means of the holes a. The back of the chamber is closedby the breech-pin G.- The hole bconnectsthis chamber F to the cone J,

and certain aim is secured, as the shot are not crowded out of line by pressing upon each other, though they are perhaps slightly spread after they lenve the barrel by the compression of air between them; but this last effect (ices not turn the wholc'chnrge aside from its course, but, on the contrary, is beneficial, it makes the SiIOlSCOi'Ql it little larger mark.

The cylinder is heid in position during the dishhrgc by the spring-catch H. This catch is operated to release said cylinder b pressing the tinger upon the key. It, and the cyiinder is rotated by hand. v

' I do not claim a barrel which has several holes for outlets or shot; nor do {chain a manychembered rotating cylinder as such, or as delivering hniiets to u. singic bnrreh Neither do i ciniin any device for discharging soverui burrels at the'seme iizne.

'i'he pnrticnhirimprovement which. constitotes my said invention, and which leini n as having been originally and first invented by Combin ng with stationary bcrrei having several tubes or chambers for shot a rotating cylinder having groups of chambers, each group of chnmbers being so arranged as to correspond with the chambers or tubes in the barrel, nnd ciso so arranged in connection with a. single cone or its equivalent to each group that theexplosion of the cap or its equivalent. shall tire the whole group to which the cone upon which it was excluded belongs,

the whoie being constructed and operating substantieliy as set forth. V

. WiLLiAM C. HAYNES,

i i'iitu'esses:

HARDEMAN, Jr,

1. SHORT, Jr. 

